Kurt Rosenfeld was a German lawyer and politician.
17 Facts About Kurt Rosenfeld
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Kurt Rosenfeld was a member of the national parliament between 1920 and 1932.
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Kurt Samuel Rosenfeld was born at Marienwerder, a mid-sized town near Danzig, then in West Prussia into a Jewish family.
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Kurt Rosenfeld was building a reputation as a trial lawyer: during this period he defended in court like minded political comrades including Rosa Luxemburg, Kurt Eisner and Georg Ledebour.
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Between 5 August 1914 and 9 November 1918, Kurt Rosenfeld took part in the First World War as a soldier.
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Kurt Rosenfeld was nevertheless one of those in the SPD who had opposed the party leadership's 1914 decision to agree a political truce at the outbreak of the war and, more specifically, to vote in favour of "war credits".
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Kurt Rosenfeld was co-opted to join the assembly on 3 May 1920, taking the place of Emanuel Wurm, a USPD member who had died.
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Kurt Rosenfeld was a USPD candidate at the general election two weeks later, and was elected, representing Electoral District 13.
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Kurt Rosenfeld was now re-elected in successive elections, remaining a Reichstag member till 1932.
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Kurt Rosenfeld was part of the minority that stayed within a much diminished USPD, but the arguments continued.
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Kurt Rosenfeld continued to work as a leading defence attorney.
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In 1931 Kurt Rosenfeld was one of six left wing SPD members of parliament excluded from the SPD group in the Reichstag following a "breach of party discipline".
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Early in 1933 Kurt Rosenfeld resigned from the SAPD and called on fellow members to link up with the Communist Party.
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Communists began to be arrested: Kurt Rosenfeld was one of those who managed to escape to Paris which was rapidly becoming the informal headquarters of the German Communist Party in exile.
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Kurt Rosenfeld set up a Paris-based anti-fascist press agency called "Agence Impress".
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Kurt Rosenfeld was one of those involved in the London "counter-trial" which received much press coverage in English-speaking parts of the world.
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Kurt Rosenfeld teamed up with Gerhart Eisler to produce, from 1941, a German language news journal "The German-American".